More than 300 children in 2017 received departmental awards of the Ministry of emergency situations for courage and bravery in extreme situations in saving people, said the head of the personnel Department of the Ministry of emergency situations, major-General Igor Kobzev.

«For the 2017 state awards awarded more than 160 people, departmental awards of the EMERCOM, more than 90,000 people. More than 300 boys and girls who have shown courage and bravery in extreme situations in saving lives, awarded departmental awards and marked in the nomination «Children-heroes» competition of professional skill of all-Russian festival on the subject of safety and rescue «Constellation of courage,» he said in an interview to «Rossiyskaya Gazeta».